redneonfish, forgot to mention: with the speedruns, i suggest going through each chapter very slowly first (on easy mode preferably) and looking for shortcuts / ways to skip past enemies / etc etc and memorising it all. Unlike the time trials you can afford to make some mistakes, but you still don't have that much time to mess around with, and dying will probably cost you the run. A huge thing to remember is, if there's a ladder or pipe that takes a while to climb, there's probably (not all the time though) a quicker way of getting up there. Mostly this could be as simple as doing a 180 wall jump off the wall opposite the ladder, or a wallrun jump or something like that. So look out for those.

Agent Mo That's all sensible advice. I'll definitely check out some Youtube tutorials too, can you download ghosts for the speed runs? I find it much easier with something to chase, what difficulty are the speed runs set to? I had a quick bash on the first chapter, I noticed that you've got Runner Vision, so it must be normal difficulty?

Agent Mo That's all sensible advice. I'll definitely check out some Youtube tutorials too, can you download ghosts for the speed runs? I find it much easier with something to chase, what difficulty are the speed runs set to? I had a quick bash on the first chapter, I noticed that you've got Runner Vision, so it must be normal difficulty?

Yeah i think it's normal. And i don't think you can download ghosts for speedruns no, but i could be wrong. I wouldn't see the point in doing so, because the chapters are a lot longer than time trials, and with lots of different routes to go down, you'd probably just lose the ghost in the first 10 seconds and never ever see it again. That happens on the time trials if you download the guy in first place anyway XD

redneonfish, forgot to mention: with the speedruns, i suggest going through each chapter very slowly first (on easy mode preferably) and looking for shortcuts / ways to skip past enemies / etc etc and memorising it all. Unlike the time trials you can afford to make some mistakes, but you still don't have that much time to mess around with, and dying will probably cost you the run. A huge thing to remember is, if there's a ladder or pipe that takes a while to climb, there's probably (not all the time though) a quicker way of getting up there. Mostly this could be as simple as doing a 180 wall jump off the wall opposite the ladder, or a wallrun jump or something like that. So look out for those.

This. If you find yourself climbing a pipe.. you're doing it wrong. That's one of the things I love about Mirrors Edge. It's so cleverly designed. You can really tell that the designers spent a lot of time fine tuning each chapter. You'd think you've found the fastest route till you realize you can wallrun a certain wall and bypass some of your route. Maybe that's what makes the game so good. It has that satisfying feeling when you discover a short-cut by yourself.

I'm trying to Platinum RE5, not that much left now. Currently on chapter 4-2 on Veteran difficulty. I have all but two of the weapons, each one upgraded to max specs.. Two treasures left to find.. Then getting the S - rank in all chapters, halfway there.. The rest of the trophies are combat related..

RE5 plat was pretty easy even with the stupid AI partner. Professional was a pain though, again, thanks to the AI partner.

Indeed... Either A.I. - Sheva stands there looking at the enemy about to pummel her face in, or she shoots me in the back... Or decides to take on a group of enemies as I'm about to die.... Unlimited ammo helps, but the only way to play RE5 is co-op.

Nonetheless, I finished the Veteran playthrough, found the last two treasures, got and upgraded all weapons and S'd every chapter today, which got me the last figurine.

All that's left are the Professional playthrough, 30 kills with long bow, the max combos, killing a jumping majini w/ headshot, deflecting an arrow with knife, killing 3 majini w/ an oil canister and stabbing a licker in the heart...

RE5 pro run is actually easier with AI since enemy almost never attack the AI. A good tip is never let AI keep any health items. When you are dying your health drains way too rapidly and you will almost always die if you wait for the AI to spray you. Instead, get her to resuscitate you because the effect is instant and you can heal yourself afterwards. Other than that, spam infinite rocket, shotgun, whatever, and you'll get through it eventually.

Ndesu fight is also easier with AI since the AI won't *bleep* up the QTE. Just keep shooting him when he's close, and when he falls back kill the majinis behind him. When he picks up a boulder, make sure you concentrate your fire on that. Most importantly try not to screw up any button presses because most of the time that's what will kill you.

I'd say coop is easier on pro, depending on who your partner is. But HK is right, don't have any sprays on you, just keep gold eggs for healing. Also one of you should have a grenade launcher with flash rounds in for any plagas that show up.

Agreed though that Ndesu is easier with the AI. Just make sure you let your gun cool down a little every time he staggers. If that overheats you're *bleep*ed. And yes the boulder is like 75% damage or something ridiculous like that so don't let that hit you.

All that's left are the Professional playthrough, 30 kills with long bow, the max combos, killing a jumping majini w/ headshot, deflecting an arrow with knife, killing 3 majini w/ an oil canister and stabbing a licker in the heart...

What Hk said is right. I played the Ndesu level with HK on veteran and it took us 10 tries to beat him. It seems that when you play with the A.I., the Ndesu is more forgiving and our A.I. partner's aiming is accurate and knows when to cool the gun down. Not to mention, the A.I. partner spams the fire relentlessly so if you are good enough then you can beat the level solo. I've beaten all difficulty modes solo that too, twice.

And tbh, no matter what you think of infinite ammo, it is highly recommended. You need to have at least 1 weapon with infinite ammo. If you wish, you can get the infinite Rocket Launcher and spam your way through the entire campaign, the pro mode is ridiculous and cheap way to make it a fake and pathetic 'survival horror', so why not end the frustration by beating a ridiculous level with some in-game help?

First Aim sprays take up plenty of space, so, if you can. try to get plenty of Brown or Gold eggs in your inventory and equip your A.I. partner with sprays and herbs so she can heal you.